In addition, since a stone-tipped spear is a skill likely to have been ... are more likely to cooperate when others have very lethal weapons—a situation still in play today.

But scientists say that stone spear points used by our ancestors 500,000 years ago, are comparable to bullets that expand on impact because they create large ‘wounds’. They think that the use ...

It was among early man’s greatest technological feats: a fully engineered weapon that combined a wooden shaft, mixed adhesives and a stone that had been chiseled to a lethal point. To many ...

The common belief was that these prehistoric hunters used intricately crafted stone-tipped spears, known as Clovis points ... delivering a more lethal blow than even the strongest human could manage ...

The authors of a new paper suggest that our ancestors may have possessed this lethal technology ... wooden elements are the spears' inorganic components, like stone points that once sat atop ...

Here’s how it works. Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests.

In addition, since a stone-tipped spear is a skill likely to have been ... are more likely to cooperate when others have very lethal weapons -- a situation still in play today.